The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-14
, THE SOUTH.

The other night Deputy Sheriff Ben F.
Reagan, of Houston, Tex, shot and killed
John Millepger, leading merchant, in q
quarrel about a bill of goods.
LEMrEL s. HOWELL, of Howel,s station,
Nd, president of the Wicomico q POGO
mol5e Railroad Company has failed with
liabilities of $4,000.
THE United States Marshal sold recently
$4,000 acres OF land, located in the counties
of Sharey, IsaQuene and Washington,
Miss, to satisfy judgments of nearly
S75O. 900, in favor of William H. Thompson,
trustee of the estate Of Henry Clews, of
New York, against the Salem, Marion &
Memphis railroad. The entire parcel Of
land was bid in by the trustee for the NOM
inal price of $4,000.
TIE same highwayman who robbed both
stages between Ballinger and San Angelo.
Tex, recently. robbed the Ballinger out
going stage again. There were only two
male passengers and the robber obtained
but 81.
A NEGRO named Jefferies, who married q
white girl at Brownstown, Ark, was re-
Gently rlddled with bullets by relatives of
his wife.
NJ. /. BAKER, supposed to be representing
Liggett & Myers the manufacturers of st.
Louis, purchased from Henry B. Thompson,
of Louisville, KY, one day recently. 500
hogsheads of Burley tobacco at an average
price Of so per 100 pounds, making the
amount $l35. 600 and 363 hogsheads at the
Ninth street house for $4,000. This
brought the sum of s2l0,OOO-a remarkable
record for single day.
A THRILLING tragedy was enacted in the
circuit court room at Chattanooga, Tenn,
the other morning. Sam Branch, colored
man, was on trial for larceny. As the YER
dict of guilty was uttered by the foreman,
Branch exclaimed: ''God knows I'm inno-
cent" and pulling large knife from his
pocket, thrust it into his throat, the blood
squirting over the jury box and judges
desk. He was dead in thirty minutes.
ARMED men We're reported in possession
of Morehead, KY, again and another battle
between the Logan and Tolliver faction is
feared.
GENERAL PITCAIRN MORRIS, q. s. A., re-
tired, died in Baltimore recently, aged
eighty-two. He was appointed to the army
in 1870.
d. BROWN, a wealthy farmer living near
Waco, Tex, has begun suit for property
in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory,
| worth $6O0. 100 which he claims on his
mothers side.
A FARMER named Crouch died recently
near Sherman, Tex, from screw worms
which in some manner entered his head.
YELLOW fever is reported to have broken
out at Tampa, Fla, but is denied by the
State Board Of Health.
The II. b. Grub Cracker Company, Of
Nashville, Tenn, has made an assignment
with 81, 900 liabilities and SIPS. 900 assets.
The Kentucky Commercial and Industrial
convention at Louisville adjourned on the
9th with banquet, at which Congressman
Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, Senator Black
burn. Governor Buckner and other noted
men spoke.
The day switchmen on the Louisville &
Nashville railway have joined the freight
brakemen in strike for higher wages.
DICK SNEED, who killed two men in cold
blood near Little Rock, Ark, last spring,
has been captured in Mississippi.
The Kentucky Court Of Appeals has de-
cided that Bill Patterson must hang for
participation in the murder of Jennie Bow
man in Louisville last July. His alleged
accomplice declared him gulltless.
IT Is row estimated that the Texas cotton
crop will not be within ten per cent. Of that
Of last year, owing to drought in July and
ravages Of the cotton worm.